A Monthly Digest of Noteworthy Activities and Achievements

Welcome to our new faculty members! We have 91 new faculty members: 76 at UCSF Health, 12 at ZSFG, and three at the SFVAHCS. Our faculty bring their passion and innovation to UCSF and will propel our department to new levels of excellence. View new faculty members and orientation dates.

Honors and News

Anil Agarwal has been selected to serve as the interim chief of the medicine service and vice chair of medicine for the SFVAHCS.

Adriann Begay testified before the Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee, advocating for GME at Indian Health Services. Her remarks begin at 1:20:00 in this video.

Anna Beyer received the Teacher of the Year Award from Sutter Health CPMC.

David Chia has been appointed the director of the Health Professions Education Pathway for UCSF GME.

Matt Durstenfeld and Hannah Leslie received Early Career Research Excellence Awards from the UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research.

Charlotte Hurabielle Claverie was selected for the Irene Perstein Award.

James Frank has been appointed co-director of the DOM Program for Clinician Educator Success (PRO-cess).

Alekist Quach has been appointed the associate program director for Ambulatory Affairs for the Internal Medicine Residency.

Marilyn Thomas was selected for the Irene Perstein-Mt. Zion Award.

Josue Zapata has been appointed the director of the Health Systems Leadership Pathway for UCSF GME.

Faculty Retirements

Join us in honoring our recently retired faculty members (pictured top to bottom, left to right): Louise Aronson, Edwin Charlebois, Don Grandis, Ken McQuaid, Pat O’Sullivan, Hope Rugo, Anne Thorson, and Joseph Wong. Not pictured: Jody Garber. Read about their careers here.

Staff Milestones

Congratulations to our staff who have achieved UC service milestones!                 
35 years: Rochelle Blanco
30 years: Mike Schembri
25 years: Sonia Arevalo, Calvin Kwok, Mary Salome
20 years: Jennifer Bie, Catherine Bonniot, Scott Huntsman, Ross Jamison, Karen Kavanagh, Gayle Kojimoto, Sarah Lee, David Olem, Svetlana Sogolova

View the list of all FY25 staff service milestones.

DOM in the News

Mark Anderson highlighted an experimental type 1 diabetes treatment that could eliminate the need for daily insulin injections (New York Times).

Peter Chin-Hong explained how Nimbus became the dominant COVID-19 subvariant (KQED, ABC News). He also described the subvariant's symptoms (Los Angeles Times) and stressed the importance of regular vaccination (Scientific American).

Sanket Dhruva reported that deaths from high blood pressure have doubled since 1993 and emphasized the need for more accessible prevention strategies (San Francisco Chronicle).

Monica Gandhi expressed excitement about Lenacapavir, a new prevention drug for HIV infection (KCBS AM, STAT News).

Eric Goosby emphasized the scope and impact of the U.S. AIDS relief program, which is currently under budget review (NPR).

Ashwin Kotwal underscored the health benefits of social connection (San Francisco Chronicle), especially regarding Alzheimer’s disease and dementia risk (BBC News).

Margot Kushel discussed the unique challenges of homelessness initiatives for people living in RVs, buses, and cars (KQED).

Recent Grants of Note

Carolyn Calfee: a grant of $8M over seven years from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for a project entitled, “Advancing precision medicine for ARDS and sepsis.”

Gregory Allen: a grant of $5.6M over two years from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a project entitled, “FM-IL2 CAR T cells for pancreatic cancer.”

Maxime Kinet: a grant of $1.2M over five years from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a project entitled, “Defining the role of Pi16-expressing fibroblasts in mouse and human fibrosing skin disease.”

Recent Publications of Note

Bauer DC, Ensrud KE. Denosumab and fracture prevention in primary care practice. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 27. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Brown JEH, Chiong W, Hutchinson N. Integrating N-of-1 trials into learning health care systems. JAMA Neurol. 2025 May 1;82:431-432. >> PubMed Citation

Chambers HF, Arias CA. Rifaximin prophylaxis and "collateral damage" in patients with advanced liver disease. Gastroenterology. 2025 May 08. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Huang AJ, Faubion S, Grady D. Nonhormonal treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 05. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Lu D, Kalantar KL, Glascock AL... Langelier CR. Simultaneous detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes with the open source, cloud-based, CZ ID platform. Genome Med. 2025 May 6;17:46. >> PubMed Citation

Matthay MA, Wick KD, Alipanah-Lechner N. Awake prone positioning in COVID-19 — Is there a new standard of care? JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 1;185:581-582. >> PubMed Citation

Mohammadi L, Navabzadeh M, Jiménez-Téllez N... Reagan E... Castaneda LM... Marcus GM, Springer ML. Association of endothelial dysfunction with chronic marijuana smoking and THC-edible use. JAMA Cardiol. 2025 May 28. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Rotenstein LS, Shah P, Shanafelt T, Sinsky CA. Incomplete team staffing, burnout, and work intentions among U.S. physicians. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jun 1;185:739-742. >> PubMed Citation

Sarkar M, Kushner T. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and pregnancy. J Clin Invest. 2025 May 15;135:e186426. >> PubMed Citation

Spinelli MA, Heise MJ, Roman J... Scott HM. Sustained effectiveness of doxycycline post-exposure-prophylaxis in a large sexual health clinic over 96 weeks: An interrupted time series analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 May 6:ciaf234. >> PubMed Citation

Thiara D. GLP-1 receptor agonists — from breakthroughs in cardiometabolic treatment to emerging neuroprotective potential. JAMA Neurol. 2025 May 1;82:437-438. >> PubMed Citation

Widera E, Covinsky K. The limited role of alzheimer disease blood-based biomarkers in primary care. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 12. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Williams CYK, Subramanian CR, Ali SS, Apolinario M, Askin E, Barish P, Cheng M... Donthi N, Ganeshan S, Huang O, Kantor MA, Lai AR, Manchanda A, Moore KA, Muniyappa AN, Nair G, Patel PP, Santhosh L, Schneider S, Torres S, Yukawa M, Hubbard CC... Physician- and large language model-generated hospital discharge summaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 5:e250821. >> PubMed Citation

See all 195 DOM-authored publications from last month.

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